What 'Back to the Future II' got right, wrong about 2015

By By LYNSI BURTON

on January 8, 2015 11:31 AM

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Remember when the arrival of 2015 was inconceivable? Well, now it's here. The "future," according to "Back to the Future Part II."

It's the year that astronaut of time Doc Brown visited from 1985 to study what's to come at the end of the first "Back to the Future." Then, opening the first sequel, released in 1989, Doc comes back to warn Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) about his delinquent son. Unintentional ruptures to the space-time continuum ensue, prompting Doc and Marty to bounce between 1985, 2015 and 1955 to restore order.

So now that it's the future, what did "Back to the Future" get right? And then wrong?

Nike says it's working on this for release this year, but there hasn't been any news about it since January. Very expensive versions of these were auctioned in 2011. But is this part of the natural course of events, or is Nike just responding to the information we have about the future? Is Nike messing up the space-time continuum? less